Thread: How much can a Koala bear???

Bit of a rant coming.........
Soooo - last Friday some new steel for my next half a dozen razors arrives - really looking forward to getting into that.
The house we moved to {renting} about 6 weeks ago has two toilets on opposite sides, and both backed up last week. Plumber arrives 5pm Friday........ first we clear the sewer pipe. The one the washing machine, 6 feet from the toilet, also backs up from. Lots of roots - cleared, washing machine good, but toilet still blocked... Turns out there is another line for the toilet running parrallel. Great - guess where that access pipe is? NOT outside. In my workshop about two feet off the floor. Access plate seems to have never been removed, so it was a real job to get it off. "yeah - i've run heaps of water in mate - it'll be clean" he says.... first brown water starts leaking....yep... hatch comes off and it explodes. The pipe runs about 30 metres to the street and is blocked all the way up and up the pipe a couple of feet above the hatch, so out it comes. Stop laughing . There are turds {from previous tenants mostly} floating through my workshop!!!! THEN it's electric eel time. By the time that's run in, then back out, there is crap {literally} sprayed up my workshop walls, on my workbench, everywhere..... and the smell!!!! i know you're laughing, but i wasn't.
Four litres of heavy duty disinfectant and a hose cleaned the floor and reduced the smell. Saturday, when the sun came up and i could see the walls i got to scrubbing them........... It still smells in there. And that is only one toilet - the other seems to be on a THIRD line and has yet to be fixed.......
Seems everytime i want to hit the workshop i have a challenge of some sort, but that one was a beaut!
Was also working on getting a new grinder set up and just found today that the gearbox in the car is stuffed. More money diverted. Anyone got a 5 speed manual gearbox for a 2001 Corolla sitting about?? SIGH.
End Rant.
Hope everyone one elses silly season is enjoyable, and at least i figure some of you smiled, if not outright got a laugh out of this adventure.
Stay Safe All.
Adam.

Oh man

Turds on the workbench
Turds on the wall,
There's lots of crazy turds,
And Adam G's seen them all!

Too bad about the shop man, I feel for you.

Holy smoke!

Oops. I mean turd.

At least you didn't try to unclog the pipe as I remember hearing one person attempted to do when I was a child. He poured gasoline down the drain pipe in his basement and lit it with a blowtorch. It cleared the pipe--and removed one entire exterior wall of his house.

Shitty news, man.

Mate.....Merry Christmas

that has to be the worst story, other than someone passing away, in quite awhile.. i wasn't even smiling as i read, just aghast... hope it cleans up well..

A Christmas to remember. A friend of mine suffered through the same in 06 and again this year. Terrible situation.
It caused me to update my homeowners insurance and buy new floor insurance. If I bought right. I can just give the company the keys and go on Holiday for 2months while they take care of it.
Hope your New Year is better!
Johnus

Adam....... Mate........... Really sorry to hear about your new workshop wallpaper. I have to admit I did laugh a little bit

You welcome to come over an use my shop if you like, if you need a fix.

Hope your Christmas improves.

Stu

Looks like 2011 has been a shitty year for everyone, Adam.
I have to admit I smiled a bit too, however, I do feel for your plight.
If we ever meet up I can relate a worse story - can't do it here.
Hope you have a great Christmas anyway

Hi All,
thanks for the kind thoughts. It is okay to have a laugh - that's what Aussie mates do.
At the moment the second toilet is sitting on the front lawn. They ran a camera down this morning and found the numbnut who put in the extensions used a right angle sewer connection. Why??!!!?? Why even make a right angle sewer connection. Now they want to jackhammer up all the concrete floor and re-lay the sewer pipes. SWMBO tells me the plumbers argued with the Real Estate company on the phone and then left..... toilet still on the lawn....
Thanks for the offer Stu, but i am still at work and also waiting for a second hand gearbox to arrive from Victoria. They were hard to find. Once it's here i get to change the gearbox in the Corolla. Eventually i will get back to the workshop....... one day... not giving up...
Adam